This paper examines the world price transmission to China for four food commodities (maize, rice, soybeans and wheat) during the recent food commodity prices spike (2006-2008). To understand the world price transmission to China for the food commodities, the author conduct econometric analysis...

NAFTA accounts for about one-fifth of China's total exports. China's exports to the NAFTA increased dramatically between 2001 and 2007. The paper extends constant market shares (CMS) framework to decompose the growth rate in a dynamic approach. The CMS decomposition at the first level indicates...

China has shifted its agricultural policy from tax agriculture to support it. The paper exams the agricultural policy changes of China in recent year, focusing on the support policy. China supports its agriculture sector through tax elimination, area payment and input subsidy. The author...

This paper provides a new extension to the shift-share analysis to attribute the net shift to competing economies with a dynamic approach. This new extension is applied to analyze the competition among the ASEAN members in the East Asian (China, Japan and Korea) market for the year from...

This paper provides a new extension to the shift-share analysis to attribute the net shift to competing economies. This new extension is applied to analyze the competition among China and the ASEAN-5 economies in the US market from 1993-2007. China performs the best among the competing...

There have been 32 cases under Chapter 11 since NAFTA came into effect in 1994. During the arbitration practices - the tribunals provided new interpretation on some traditional concepts. Meanwhile, different tribunals interpreted some substantial standards in different ways, which reveals the...

During the first ten years of NAFTA, Mexican agriculture underwent a great change, which are not fully accordance with what economic theory had expected and are not all because of NAFTA as well. As to the reasons, Mexico's reform on agriculture policies took an important part

National FDI policies play an important part in attracting FDI, which covering attracting FDI, gaining from FDI, and addressing TNCs. Recent years have seen great changes and developments in national FDI policies, and IIAs with respect to the form and amount as well. IIAs at different levels...

Since World War II, international investment agreements experienced a rapid development. However, some differences exist greatly in different agreements in the following aspects: Definition of Investment, FDI Entry and Treatment, Nationalization and Expropriations, Investment Dispute Settlement,...

Since World War II, international investment agreements experienced a rapid development. However, some differences exist greatly in different agreements in the following aspects: Definition of Investment, FDI Entry and Treatment, Nationalization and Expropriations, Investment Dispute Settlement,...